Rebecca Chapman
- R&D FTB Senior Clinical Research Mental Health Practitioner
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Contact:
Email address:
rebecca.chapman25@nhs.net
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R&D FTB Senior Clinical Research Mental Health Practitioner
Biography
My background is in Psychology and Mental Health. I have a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology and Mental Health from the University of Sussex.
I began working in the NHS during my degree and have worked in various clinical roles including Child Care Worker in a brain injury service, senior clinical support worker in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service inpatient ward and Assistant Psychologist in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service. I also qualified as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, completing my postgraduate training at the University of Reading.
My first research job was working as a Research Associate on a trial of cognitive remediation in Early Intervention in Psychosis services. I have worked in research for 8 years and became a registered Clinical Research Practitioner (CRP) in 2020. I have worked in research delivery posts across mental health, community health and acute NHS trusts as well as universities, gaining experience of the set up and delivery of a large range of trials. I am part of the national CRP leadership group and have been involved with the development of the CRP professional registration process, supporting other patient-facing research delivery staff in working towards professional registration, assessing applications to the CRP register and raising awareness of the contribution of CRPs to the research delivery workforce.
Mark Byrne
Assistant Research Psychologist
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Contact:
Email address: m.byrne5@nhs.net
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Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Biography
I have a BSc in Psychology from the University of the West of Scotland, and a MSc in Neural and Behavioural Sciences from the University of Tübingen. I begin working alongside the IMH in 2023, when I started as a Research Assistant Psychologist for the Bipolar At Risk Trial, a multi-centre randomised control trial investigating the efficacy of a novel cognitive behavioural therapy intervention in comparison to treatment as usual in young adults at high risk of developing Bipolar Disorder, under the supervision of the study’s Principal Investigator, Professor Matthew Broome, and Co-Lead, Dr. Emma Černis. I then got a new position in June 2024 as a Clinical Studies Officer, under the Mental Health Mission. I’m currently working on the ADEPP study, which is a randomised controlled trial looking at the use of antidepressant for the prevention of depression following first episode psychosis, and the PIMS Trial which is double-blind randomised placebo trial that investigates an inflammation in First Episode Psychosis patients, and the effects an anti-inflammatory drug has on it.
Tyler Jade Weetman
Clinical Studies Officer
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Contact:
Email address: tyler.weetman@nhs.net
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Clinical Studies Officer - Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Biography
I have a background in Psychology having completed both my BSc and MSc at the University of Birmingham. I have worked in research at Birmingham Children’s hospital for the past 3 years. Over my time as an Assistant Research Psychologist, I have worked on a number of research projects including the CTIMP trial ADEPP which aims to determine whether an anti-depressant can prevent depression after a first episode of Psychosis, the CLEAR project which aims to provide an evidence base for the effectiveness of clozapine in a younger population and PPIP2, which aims to investigate the prevalence of autoimmune antibodies in patients with psychosis. I have also spent time visiting other NHS trusts to provide training on recruitment barriers and streamline their research processes. Last year, I took a career break to travel for 5 months and returned to my new role as a Clinical Studies Officer as part of the Mental Health Mission.